Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Control Association, president of the Voluntary Sterilization Society, president of the Council for the Disposition of the Dead, vice president of the Cremation Society. He is chairman of the Anti-Noise League and, with George Bernard Shaw and Herbert George Wells, belongs to the smell Society which seeks to suppress London's stinks. He dislikes health faddists, Nazis and cranks who denounce beer and white bread...
...show that they have really reformed, France and Germany were to suppress, each within its own borders, all inflammatory print and talk against the other. Germany will return to the League...
...Frankfurt-am-Main. "I ask the German people, 'Art Thou, Oh German people, in favor of burying the hatchet with France?' and they reply 'Yes.' And I ask, 'Dost Thou, Oh German people, desire that we should attempt to lord it over or suppress France?' and they answer 'No.' And I am sure that the majority of the French people feel the same way about the German people...
...Emperor Haile Selassie ordered 5.000 troops from Addis Ababa to suppress a mutiny in Gojjam, where the rumored death of Ras Hailu, deposed as Governor two years ago, was attributed to His Majesty. The Emperor's spokesmen said Gojjam's mutineers had been duped by Italian propaganda...
...Frenchmen buy daily for a copper or two thrilling Rightist sheetlets which hurl political dirt, libel and "inside dope" with such abandon that their passionate editors give at least the impression of sincerity. Yelped one such editor last week: "Shoot down like dogs the 160 Senators who want to suppress the Fascist Leagues!" Screamed another: "I take the responsibility for killing Leon Blum [Socialist Party Leader...